connectionist models of learning and development

[Denis Mareschal]

Dear all,

	Members of this list may be interested in the following new
journal. There has recently been an increase in the amount of computational
and especially connectionist modelling of learning and development in
infancy and childhood. Many of the researchers in the field want to find a
natural outlet for the publication of their work. Developmental Science is
a journal that specifically solicits manuscripts reporting on computational
and connectionist models of learning and development. Also of interest are
empirical studies that test existing models.

	Apologies to those who may receive multiple copies of this message.


			Best Regards,

				Denis





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The first issue of Developmental Science, the journal of the European
Society for Developmental Psychology has now been published.  Developmental
Science represents the best of contemporary scientific developmental
psychology both in the presentation of theory and in reporting new data,
Developmental Science will include:

*	Comparative and biological perspectives
*	Connectionist and computational perspectives
*	Dynamical systems theory




VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 CONTENTS:

Peer commentary article
*	Uniquely Primate, Uniquely Human - Michael Tomasello

Peer commentaries on Tomasello: "Uniquely Primate, Uniquely Human"
*	Comment on Michael Tomasello's Uniquely Primate, Uniquely Human -
Merlin Donald

*	The Shaping of Social Cognition in Evolution and Development -
Andrew Whiten

*	Comment on "Uniquely Primate, Uniquely Human" - Marc D Hauser

*	Uniquely to what ends? - Jonas Langer

*	Simian Similarities, Schisms, and "Special Social Skills" - James R
Anderson

Reply by the author
*	Response to Commentators - Michael Tomasello

Reports

*	A nonhuman primate's expectations about object motion and
destination: the importance of self-propelled movement and animacy - Marc D
Hauser

*	Development of Precision Grips in Chimpanzees - George Butterworth &
Shoji Itakura

*	Development of Selective Attention in Young Infants: Enhancement and
Attenuation of Startle Reflex by Attention - John E Richards

*	Visual attention in infants with perinatal brain damage: Evidence of
the importance of anterior lesions - Mark H Johnson, Leslie A Tucker, Joan
Stiles & Doris Trauner

*	Gravity Does Rule for Falling Events - Bruce M Hood

*	Imitation across Changes in Object Affordances and Social Context in
9-Month-Old Infants - Emmanuel Devouche

*	Object Individuation in Young Infants: Further Evidence with an
Event-Monitoring Paradigm - Teresa Wilcox & Renee Baillargeon

*	Computational Evidence for the Foundations of Numerical Competence -
Tony J Simon

*	Newborns Learn to Identify a Face in Eight/Tenths of a Second? -
Gail Walton, Erika Armstrong & Thomas G R Bower


Papers
*	Global Influences on the Development of Spatial and Object
Perceptual Categorization Abilities: Evidence from Preterm Infants - Clay
Mash, Paul C Quinn, Velma Dobson & Dana B Narter

*	A Computational Analysis of Conservation - Thomas R Shultz

*	We almost had a great future behind us: the contribution of
non-linear dynamics to developmental-science-in-the-making - Paul van Geert


VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 CONTENTS:

Article with peer commentary and a reply by the author.
*	Infant perseveration and implications for object permanence
theories: A PDP model of the AB task - Y. Munakata

Commentaries
*	Understanding the A not B error : Working memory vs reinforded
response, or active trace vs latent trace - A. Diamond

*	Toward a general model of perseveration in infancy - R.
Bailllargeon. & A. Aguiar

*	Commentary on Munakata - J. G. Bremner

*	The development of delayed response: parallel distributed processing
lacks neural plausibility - S. Dehaene

*	On theory and modeling - J. Mandler

*	To reach or not to reach: that is the question - Denis Mareschal

*	Commentary on Munakata's theory of object permanence development -
J. S. Reznick

*	Infant perseveration and implications for object permanence
theories: A PDP model of the A not B task - J. Russell

*	Babies have bodies: Why Munakata's net fails to meet its own goals -
L. B. Smith

Reply by the author
*	Infant perseveration: rethinking data, theory and the role of
modeling - Y. Munakata

Reports

*	Special Section: Work from the Medical Research Council Cognitive
Development Unit, London - John Morton, Uta Frith, Mark Johnson & Annette
-Karmiloff-Smith

*	Is Dutch native English? Linguistic analysis by 2 month olds - A.
Christophe & J. Morton

*	Object centred attention in 8 month olds - M. Johnson& R. O. Gilmore

If you would like further information regarding Developmental Science,
including notes for contributors and editorial information please log on to:

<http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=1363-755X&src=aim>

Alternatively contact Rachel Manns at Blackwell Publishers by email on
rmanns at blackwellpublishers.co.uk or by fax on +44 (0) 1865 381362

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	Dr. Denis Mareschal
	Centre for Brain and  Cognitive Development
	Department of Psychology
	Birkbeck College
	University of London
	Malet St., London
	WC1E 7HX, UK
	tel +44 171 631-6582/6207
	fax +44 171 631-6312
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